Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized
training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an (66) should
be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually,
(67) , most people make several job choices during their
working lives, (68) because of economic and industrial
changes and partly to improve (69) position. The "one
perfect job" does not exist. Young people should (70) enter
into a broad flexible training program that will (71) them
for a field of work rather than for a single (72)
. Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans
(73) benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor
or psychologist. Knowing (74) about the occupational world,
or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss
(75) . Some drift from job to job. Others (76)
to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not
fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for
(77) real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school
students—or their parents for them—choose the professional field, (78)
both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions
and the extremely high educational and personal (79) . The
imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "White-collar" job is
(80) good reason for choosing it as life’s work.
(81) , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a
large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the (82)
of young people should give serious (83) to these
fields. Before making an occupational choice, a person should
have a general idea of what he wants (84) life and how hard
he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others
intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take
(85) for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its
demands as well as its rewards. A. majority